30/08/2026
🌧️ Heavy rain washed out Monmouth Cricket Club’s promotion hopes in South East Wales League Division 6.
🙏 Needing a victory to keep their promotion challenge alive, Monmouth’s final league match yesterday at home to rivals Panteg Seconds was abandoned without a ball bowled.
👀 While both teams collected five points, the outcome didn’t benefit either side and Monmouth finished fourth (246 points), and Panteg third (247 points).
📍With Cardiff-based TAW having already won the league title, in-form Vale Seconds clinched the second available promotion place.
🍾 In the only match in the division that survived the deluge, Vale bagged 18 points from an emphatic nine-wicket home triumph against Upper Rhondda.
👉 Peter Keay’s Monmouth 1st XI, sponsored by Bürkert Fluid Control Systems, ended 2026 with a decent record of 10 wins and five defeats from 18 league matches following a Division 7 title-winning season in 2025.
ℹ️ Although a disappointing and frustrating finale to this summer, Keay’s side congratulate Corntown-based Vale and TAW on their promotions.
🎉 And Monmouth’s new club record of 417-3 against Penarth Thirds last month - which was set up by Ben Davies’ hard-hitting 190 at the Sports Ground - sits proudly in club history.
👉 Final positions in Division 6, top four: 1 TAW 301 points, 2 Vale Seconds 262 pts, 3 Panteg Seconds 247 pts, 4 Monmouth 246 pts.
ℹ️ Meanwhile, Monmouth Seconds rounded off their Division 12 programme with an eight-wicket defeat in a 20-overs-side match at high-flying Lisvane Fourths.
🙌 But, more importantly, Andrew Dobbie’s Monmouth Seconds retained their status in the division, finishing 13 points and one place above the relegation zone.
🏏 Lisvane picked up a maximum 20-point haul from the reduced overs clash at Cardiff’s Llandaff Fields to pip Monkswood & Panteg Thirds to the second promotion place.
👍 In the only match played in Division 12, Jake Teague (38) and stand-in skipper Gareth Jones (21) provided the bedrock of Monmouth’s 141-7 with an excellent opening partnership of 61.
🤝 Teague cracked four boundaries and two sixes in his rapid 26-ball knock, while Kit Skailes (13), teenager Charlie Mallen (11 not out) and Joe Walton (11) all contributed in Monmouth’s 20-over innings.
👌 After the interval, Joe Walton (1-15) and Gareth Jones (1-28) bagged a wicket a piece for Monmouth.
😔 However, Lisvane powered towards the target.
🥳 Shafiq Hassan (59 not out from 43 balls), Jospeh Sebastian (38) and Steve Chapman (17) all combined to propel Lisvane to their winning total – and spark some jubilant home victory celebrations - in 15.5 overs.
🙌 Despite Monmouth’s defeat, Walton took a catch and there were bowling spells from Aled Jones, Monty Clarke, Skailes, Charlie Mallen, Ieuan Jones and Neil Saunders.
📍Monmouth Seconds concluded their season in seventh place - with seven wins and eight losses from their 18 fixtures.
💥 The captains and players would like to thank Joe Atkinson (1st XI), club chairman Mike Maguire (2nd XI) and Philip Vaughan-Smith (3rd XI) for tremendous support in scoring the three Saturday senior teams during the summer.
📸 Popular captain Peter Keay (pictured batting) came close to leading Monmouth 1st XI to back-to-back promotions.
